PCR cycle threshold was reduced in January, so if anything we should be getting a lot fewer false positives now (and a lot more false negatives), even though te

PCR cycle threshold was reduced in January, so if anything we should be getting a lot fewer false positives now (and a lot more false negatives), even though testing throughput is 1.5x of what it was in Sep 2020. But again, half the people had the disease, and well over a half had the vaccine. We should not be seeing what we're seeing. Remember - 4 times as many people aren't even on the radar, they have mild cases and never go to the hospital. We should be asking questions as to whether multi-trillion dollar bullshit we've been doing to "stop covid" (which can't be stopped) is effective or not, yet there's a very notable lack of journalistic inquisitiveness in that regard. It's becoming a religion, basically, where if you challenge the dogma you're branded an apostate and excommunicated instead of anyone trying to persuade you with facts. FWIW, not a single soul is even asking the obvious question: what scientific justification is there to require vaccination for people with _confirmed_ previous covid infection? Science says they already enjoy immunity superior to any vaccine available on the market. And yet they are considered "unvaccinated", and could lose their livelihood if they live in blue states or work for (or even _with_) the federal government. Especially the medical frontline workers that just last year were "heroes" and had covid in droves: a lot of them have lost their jobs yesterday in NY. If this was about science, it'd focus on vulnerable populations. During the entire duration of this pandemic, only a little over 400 children have died with covid, and less than 1400 people in the 15-24 age range. Yet where is the public discourse focused now? On vaccinating the children and the young adults. Why? I have a thousand such "why"s and the whole situation, to me at least, stinks of corruption, ineptitude, and science denialism, because nobody has a coherent answer, even the people who should know better. And the less educated folks, while they might not understand the subtleties of this debate, can smell the bullshit too.